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At the center of the world
our bodies float over each other
near to everything, at the center
of being
Not like arrows pointing in three directions
but like our own bodies
pulsing in and out
Laughter can cure nearly anything
it is sa
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She walks alone in black high heels
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Now all I have left is yesterdays.
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A bride, dressed in white gown and flowing veil, totters in high heels down the uneven pavement past Simone’s Café. She holds a bouquet of red and orange chrysanthemums. Three men, wearing black tuxes, accompany her; one of them holds up the hem of her dr
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That was the night that everything began to happen. It must have been past 3:00 a.m. when Darrell came down from the attic right into our bedroom. I lay nearly paralyzed with guilt beside my wife, trying to get to sleep. Elizabeth had staggered to bed
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& where, I wonder, is the poet’s planet,
What kind of king, or queen rules it?
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After the shooting, they sent the boy away. He returned taller and heavier, a sulkier version of his earlier self.
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How freeing to writhe under someone with more muscles than fat, who could keep it up longer than minute, who afterwards stroked my hair and if he noticed the fine silver strands by my ears didn’t mention them. I forget his name...
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"My mother loses patience when I get sad," I said. "She tells me about the dog."
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A motivational speaker I know intimately cannot abide any form of swearing.
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Eve is eating a plum. The plum is cold and how it got cold is sort of a mystery, but there are mysteries everywhere and the cold juice on her face doesn't really incline her to worry much about mysteries.
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We all build portraits, meaning we all try to encapsulate and thus punctuate time. Why? Because, who among us can swallow eternity whole?
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This happened to me on Friday, May 3, 2002 in North Austin on the corner of North Lamar and Mulberry Street.
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Let me tell you a story, child, of how your father became your father...
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I have, for example, watched Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" 117 times.
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Step off, dude. I have no intention of coming back to you.
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Jackson ran his sweaty hands over his vintage cowboy shirt hoping testosterone would iron it.
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A glance—I dissolved completely.
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I stared deep into the sepias...
And you touched my soul anew.
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The sky is orange and red. It’s getting dark out by the time Sophie goes inside to tell Mom. The colors of everything fade together and turn gray, even the grass and my pink bicycle.
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In his dream, he was choking on an ice cube. He didn’t know what would happen first — if it would melt or he would die.
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The men who have come to take me have science on their side. I know this is true, and yet I sit on the same bed I've had since girlhood, unable to move myself to pack even a pair of socks. What does one wear at the asylum anyway? Pajamas? Certainly my suits will be useless.…
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I dropped out of college and flipped a coin, a 1929 half-dollar, and decided if heads, suicide. If tails, a life of perpetual travel.
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This is your mystery, your story Full of beauty and all-encompassing loveA brushstroke washes the canvas cleanYou start over with a new directionDreaming of me as you paint your wordsWriting just like Keats, Shelley and BrontëAbout sorrow, rain and the wheels of passion
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At least, I think it was him. It sure looked like him.
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The monarchs that migrate to Mexico and California in the autumn every year live for only a month.
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the only thing that impresses me now
is the state of my inebriation
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I was a peasant girl, believe me, and nothing much to look at--- close set eyes, one blue and one green, wispy brown hair and a chin that dominated every other feature of my face.
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